THE IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAM NOTES FOR TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2007
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6:00 AM Joy Cardin - 08/14A After-school activities are vanishing around the state, particularly in the Milwaukee area. After six, Joy Cardin's guest educator sees a crisis brewing.Guest: Michael Apple, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, and Educational Policy, UW-Madison. Author, /Democratic Schools, Second Edition: Lessons in Powerful Education/.
7:00 AM Joy Cardin - 08/14B After seven, Joy Cardin's guest explains what, if anything, the Democratic presidential candidates could do about the subprime loan crisis. Guest: Kevin Quinn, associate professor of economics, Saint Norbert College.
8:00 AM Joy Cardin - 08/14C Are voters irrational? According to Joy Cardin's guest, after eight, people vote for what makes them feel good, without thinking about the consequences, and will often vote against their own interests. Guest: Bryan Caplan, author, /The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies/ (Princeton University Press).
9:00 AM Kathleen Dunn - 08/14D Karl Rove is stepping down as White House deputy chief of staff. After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss how Rove, who has been called the premier Republican strategist of the last decade, shaped the Bush presidency. Guest: TBA
10:00 AM Kathleen Dunn - 08/14E School desegregation in Little Rock... Sputnik... Dr. Seuss... Jack Kerouac (CARE-oh-wack), the birth control pill... Kathleen Dunn and her guests, after nine, remember the year 1957. Guests: - Glenn C. Altschuler, Professor of American Studies, Dean of Continuing Education and Summer Session, Cornell University. -Lary May, Professor, American Studies, University of Minnesota.
1:00 PM Talk of the Nation After one, author Thomas Friedman joins host Neal Conan on Talk of the Nation, to discuss how the U.S. can compete in a globalized world.
2:00 PM Talk of the Nation Economics is known as the dismal science, but get this: its principles explain everything from which way your shirt buttons, to why playing hard-to-get can get you the girl. After two, on Talk of the Nation, Robert Frank, author of /The Economic Naturalist/, answers your questions about the economics of human behavior... from the birds and the bees, to the price of eggs.
3:00 PM Here On Earth: Radio Without Borders - 08/14K While they frantically rebuild Beijing for the 2008 Olympics, they're also working to bring back an ancient conservative philosophy. After three, on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guests discuss why Confucianism is so well suited to the current regime in China. Guests: - Mark Csikszentmihalyi, associate professor of Chinese and religious studies, UW-Madison. - Julia Murray, professor of art history, UW-Madison. - Yi-Fu Tuan, emeritus professor of geography, UW-Madison.
5:00 PM At Issue with Ben Merens - 08/14M After five, Ben Merens talks with a contractor combatant, who has a unique perspective on what is happening in Iraq right now, how it has changed, and what the future holds. Guest: Carter Andress, former U.S. Army Infantry Officer. Author, /Contractor Combatants: Tales of an Imbedded Capitalist/ (Thomas Nelson).
6:00 PM On Point After six, On Point: Report Card on Iraq. Michael O'Hanlon and Anthony Cordesman, two big Middle East watchers just back from Iraq, give us their differing takes on what lies ahead for the country.
8:00 PM As It Happens At eight, it's As It Happens from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
9:00 PM Here On Earth: Radio Without Borders - 08/14K While they frantically rebuild Beijing for the 2008 Olympics, they're also working to bring back an ancient conservative philosophy. After nine, on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guests discuss why Confucianism is so well suited to the current regime in China. Guests: - Mark Csikszentmihalyi, associate professor of Chinese and religious studies, UW-Madison. - Julia Murray, professor of art history, UW-Madison. - Yi-Fu Tuan, emeritus professor of geography, UW-Madison.
10:00 PM Kathleen Dunn - 08/14E School desegregation in Little Rock... Sputnik... Dr. Seuss... Jack Kerouac (CARE-oh-wack), the birth control pill... Kathleen Dunn and her guests, after nine, remember the year 1957. Guests: - Glenn C. Altschuler, Professor of American Studies, Dean of Continuing Education and Summer Session, Cornell University. -Lary May, Professor, American Studies, University of Minnesota.
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